Michael Blickman Quoted in Bloomberg Law: "Segregating Unvaccinated Workers? Think Twice, Attorneys Warn"

Ice Miller LLP partner Michael Blickman was quoted in the Bloomberg Law article, "Segregating Unvaccinated Workers? Think Twice, Attorneys Warn."

The article included:

Employers can legally separate vaccinated and unvaccinated workers—by shift or floor, for example—but lawyers are cautioning against it, following recent CDC guidance that says those fully inoculated against Covid-19 can mostly shed their masks.

“It would be a stupendously bad idea to go down that road from an employee-relations perspective,” said Michael Blickman, a management attorney with Ice Miller LLP.

Most employers can generally require workers to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, but business-wide mandates have been rare, leaving workplaces mixed with vaccinated and unvaccinated employees.

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